Improvement in railroad-gates



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A Railroad (atefs.

NO. 142,466. Patented September2,873.,

Nrrnn -rA'rns ALBERT HOUTS, DEGEASED, (ELIAS HOUTS, ADMINISTRATOR) 0FSALONA,

- PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAILROAD-GATES.

Specification forming part of Lettersl Patent No. 142,466, datedSeptember 2, 1873; application filed May 17, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ALBERT Hours, of Sa. lona, in the county of Clintonand State of Pennsylvania, have invented a newand valuable Improvementin Railroad-Gates 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, referenced being had to the annexed drawings making a part ofthis specification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of my railroad-gate in planview. Fig. 2 is a transverse section ofthe same.

Thisinvention has relation to railroad-gates; and it consists, inconnection with a series of jointed or pivoted rail-sections, of theconstruction and novel arrangement of a compound lever having avertically vibratin g Weighted branch, provided With a rest-plate tosupport the railjointV and a horizontally-vibrating branch at rightangles with the plane of the sliding gate, and connected thereto by aslotted projection or link, allowing the necessary play. The object ofthis invention is to make use of pivoted rails, connected to form arising joint on each side of the gate, and, with this object in view,the main fulcrum of the compound lever is placed at one side of the gateand some distance therefrom. By the arrangement adopted the action ofthe horizontal lever upon the sliding gate is directly in the plane ofits movement.

In ord er to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation.

Likeletters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

. A A represent two frames erected one on each side of a railroad-track,and in each of said frames is a gate, B, made to move.hori. zontallyacross the track and meet in the center of the same. Through each gate,B, at or near the center, is passed a link, c, to cach end of which isattached a lever, (l, the said levers extending in opposite directionsfrom the gate and pivoted on top of vertical posts E E. A suitabledistance from the gates on each side of them and on each side of thetrackis pivoted a lever, G, the inner end of which extends under therails nearest to it, and the outer end of which is Weighted by WeightsH. From each lever G, at or near itspivot-point, extends an arm, b,upward, the upper end of which is inserted and fits in a hole in the endof the lever C. I I are the rails of a railroad-track, which are soarranged as to be hinged together on each side of the track directlyover the levers G G. The inner ends of these levers are to be turned up,so as to hold the rails in `proper position. The other ends of therails, which are so hinged together above the levers G, are iiexiblyconnected with the adjoining rails of the track, so that these rails maybe raised at the joints Z to a certain height by the weighted levers GG, and when in this position the gates B B are closed.

As a train approaches from either direction the rails I I are depressedby the front Wheels of the locomotive before the front end of the samereaches the gates. This depression of the rails I I tips the levers G G,which, by means of their arms b b, turn the levers C (l on their pivots,and these levers in turn draw the gates outward away from the track.

What I claim as 'new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The compound lever, consisting of the vertieally-vibrating Weightedbranch G having the upright arm b and the rail-rest and thehorizontally-vibrating branch (l, in connection with the slotted link c,the sliding gate B, and the rails I, pivoted together to form the risingjoint Z at some distance from said gate, substantially as speeied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have l hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two Witnesses.

ALBERT HOUTS@ Witnesses:

J. G. SIGMUND, W. J. WEAVER.

